The problem I see here is that the students will lack in the emotional intelligence area (EQ). I believe this is the term for what other people have been trying to say. I heard someone say that someone's EQ is more important then their IQ in being a success in life. The students need to learn how to interact with other people. I'm sure they could get some of this by doing sports and other clubs. I'm not sure if they would be as prepared as children who go through a good conventional school.
Maybe if you want your kids to sit at home and fill out web surveys for $10 each when they grow up.:)
I had Vonage running fine on Comcast in the past. As soon as Comcast started testing their own VOIP service, all of my calls started dropping. I have a couple friends that work (and have worked) in the Comcast service centers and they confirmed that Comcast started testing their VOIP service at the same time I started having Vonage problems. I ended up dropping Vonage and switched back to a traditional phone line. A couple other people I know did the same around that time. I had heard after I dropped Vonage that the situation improved, but you are still at the mercy of Comcast. I still think that Vonage setup excellent service with plenty of account options. It's just a shame I was unable to use them.
On a side note.. One of those friends now works in their VOIP support department. Supposedly they get lots of calls from lots of angry people. He has questioned whether the Comcast VOIP service is ready for prime time yet. Since people working in customer support centers only hear about the problems, I wouldn't really trust that opinion without personally testing their service.
I was under the impression that telemarketers could not call cell phones because it would incur a cost on the end user. If they did this by using the telephone number prefix, what is going to happen if you switch your home phone number to a cell? I don't see how they can differentiate between the two.
IMO, they should keep mobile phones and land lines separate. Allowing mobile portability (between cell carriers) and land line portability (between local phone carriers) would be good enough. I think that would enable plenty of competition, which is what the FCC says is the goal. It would be pretty sleazy if this was just used to blur the lines so telemarketers could target more people.
One of the main reasons I keep a cell phone is to only give out that number instead of my home phone so that companies will not sell my number and/or target me for telemarketing. I would hate to lose my edge on the telemarketers.
I don't think the floppy can go away just yet. It would be great to see the CD-RW replace it, but why does the burning code need to be done in software? I don't want to fuss with special CD-RW drivers which may cost money under some OS's. I think that is holding it back. When you can read and write to a cd in DOS 6.22 without drivers, then the floppy will go away.
I want to be able to read and write to a CD-RW or something comparable in Linux, MS-DOS, Windows, or whatever without the need to load ANY driver.
I don't think unlimited points would be the answer, maybe more points. Besides it would be interesting to see if alot of moderators "hang themselves." I think it would be interesting to see how it plays out either way.
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Delaware is within 50 miles of four nuclear plant complexes.
http://dema.delaware.gov/information/nuc_haz.shtml
I wonder how this will affect Geocaching in the UK...
The problem I see here is that the students will lack in the emotional intelligence area (EQ). I believe this is the term for what other people have been trying to say. I heard someone say that someone's EQ is more important then their IQ in being a success in life. The students need to learn how to interact with other people. I'm sure they could get some of this by doing sports and other clubs. I'm not sure if they would be as prepared as children who go through a good conventional school.
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Maybe if you want your kids to sit at home and fill out web surveys for $10 each when they grow up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_intelligen
I had Vonage running fine on Comcast in the past. As soon as Comcast started testing their own VOIP service, all of my calls started dropping. I have a couple friends that work (and have worked) in the Comcast service centers and they confirmed that Comcast started testing their VOIP service at the same time I started having Vonage problems. I ended up dropping Vonage and switched back to a traditional phone line. A couple other people I know did the same around that time. I had heard after I dropped Vonage that the situation improved, but you are still at the mercy of Comcast. I still think that Vonage setup excellent service with plenty of account options. It's just a shame I was unable to use them.
On a side note.. One of those friends now works in their VOIP support department. Supposedly they get lots of calls from lots of angry people. He has questioned whether the Comcast VOIP service is ready for prime time yet. Since people working in customer support centers only hear about the problems, I wouldn't really trust that opinion without personally testing their service.
I was under the impression that telemarketers could not call cell phones because it would incur a cost on the end user. If they did this by using the telephone number prefix, what is going to happen if you switch your home phone number to a cell? I don't see how they can differentiate between the two.
IMO, they should keep mobile phones and land lines separate. Allowing mobile portability (between cell carriers) and land line portability (between local phone carriers) would be good enough. I think that would enable plenty of competition, which is what the FCC says is the goal. It would be pretty sleazy if this was just used to blur the lines so telemarketers could target more people.
One of the main reasons I keep a cell phone is to only give out that number instead of my home phone so that companies will not sell my number and/or target me for telemarketing. I would hate to lose my edge on the telemarketers.
BTW, the cellphonecarriers.com site you linked to has a lot of good info including mobile phone portability and home phone portability.
I don't think the floppy can go away just yet. It would be great to see the CD-RW replace it, but why does the burning code need to be done in software? I don't want to fuss with special CD-RW drivers which may cost money under some OS's. I think that is holding it back. When you can read and write to a cd in DOS 6.22 without drivers, then the floppy will go away.
I want to be able to read and write to a CD-RW or something comparable in Linux, MS-DOS, Windows, or whatever without the need to load ANY driver.
I don't think unlimited points would be the answer, maybe more points. Besides it would be interesting to see if alot of moderators "hang themselves." I think it would be interesting to see how it plays out either way.